LOVE FOR LOVE’S SAKE: 30 quotations about unconditional love

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself—and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to—letting a person be what he really is. – Jim Morrison

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. – Barbara de Angelis

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. – Paulo Coelho

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. – Duke Ellington

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is blind. – Geoffrey Chaucer

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. – Maya Angelou

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. – Mother Teresa

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. – William Shakespeare

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. – Brian Tracy

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. – Wayne Dyer

Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. – Henry Rollins

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don’t mean. – Will Smith

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. – Honore de Balzac

We do not judge the people we love. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. – Thomas à Kempis

You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. – Julia Roberts

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. – Soren Kierkegaard

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. – Sun Myung Moon

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. – Bertrand Russell